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  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy, Bonn, West Germany:...

    This series contains general correspondence from the British Embassy in Bonn, West Germany. The files cover a wide range of subjects, including the disposal of Nazi property, war criminals and the management of Spandau Prison, Communist infiltration,…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1952-1974
    Reference
    FO 1042
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files

    This series contains selected files from the First and Second World War periods and the inter-war years on suspected spies and double agents, renegades and suspected renegades (including P G Wodehouse), German intelligence (Abwehr) officers, Japanese…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1913-1983
    Reference
    KV 2
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    The Security Service: Subject (SF series) Files

    The early part of this series comprises the only two subject files known to have survived from the First World War period . Later files in the series relate to other subjects tackled by the Security Service, including the recovery of British official…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1905-1978
    Reference
    KV 3
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office: Security and Intelligence...

    This collection of records was created by the groups of officials within the Commonwealth Relations Office (later Commonwealth Office) who were responsible for the department's relations with the UK security and intelligence services. Due to the sens…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1942-1962
    Reference
    DO 231
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Information Research Department:...

    This series contains registered files of the Information Research Department (IRD) concerning the provision of anti-Communist information via British overseas missions and posts and other outlets. The series covers the IRD role in reporting from the …

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1973-1975
    Reference
    FCO 174
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Foreign Office: Political Adviser to the Commander-in-Chief, Far East: Records

    Records of the Political Adviser on subjects such as the Malaysian confrontation with Indonesia, the Communist threat in South East Asia, and general security arrangements in the region.

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1965-1966
    Reference
    FO 1101
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Information Research Department:...

    This series contains registered and miscellaneous files of the Information Research Department (IRD) concerning the provision of anti-Communist information via British overseas missions and posts and other outlets, such as regional information office…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1948-2013
    Reference
    FO 1110
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Information Research Department:...

    This series includes files of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Information Research Department regarding political and economic intelligence. This includes files concerning political figures and leaders between 1944-1950, Gestapo collaborators,…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1878-1957
    Reference
    FCO 162
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: East-West Contacts Department...

    This series consists of the records of the East-West Contacts Department and its succesor from February 1971, the Cultural Exchange Department, relating to cultural agreements and exchange programmes with the Soviet Union, China, and Mongolia, and te…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1968-1976
    Reference
    FCO 34
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    HM Treasury and Civil Service Department: Establishments and Manning: Security Vetting...

    This series contains security vetting appeals files. It consists of files on the administration of the Three Advisers panels, established to decide whether civil servants found to be associated with the Communist Party should be moved away from conta…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1948-1975
    Reference
    BA 28
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Information Research Department:...

    This series covers the period from 1966 to 1991 and includes registered files (IR and PR series) of the Information Research Department (IRD - closed in 1977) concerning the provision of anti-communist information via British overseas missions and po…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1948-1998
    Reference
    FCO 95
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Government Communications Headquarters and predecessor: Soviet Bloc reports

    This series covers GCHQ reports on the Soviet Bloc countries issued during the period 1945-1950 inclusive. The countries included in this series are Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Soviet Union (USSR), and Yugoslavia. The…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1945-1950
    Reference
    HW 75
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Government Code and Cypher School: Decrypts of Communist International (COMINTERN)...

    This series contains Communist International (COMINTERN) radio messages transmitted between Moscow and radio stations abroad decrypted by J H Tiltman and reported by GCHQ. Reports were classified most secret and were subsequently given the code name …

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1930-1945
    Reference
    HW 17
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Assizes: Western Circuit: Criminal Depositions and Case Papers

    The items in this series relate mainly to murder and other serious offences. A high proportion of the murders are cases of infanticide. After 1949 a wider range of offences is covered. The earlier depositions are sometimes annotated with verdict and …

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1861-1971
    Reference
    ASSI 26
  • Catalogue level
    Piece

    1 item extracted from WO 32/5679. South Asia: 'Caucasia': map of the area of the...

    1 item extracted from WO 32/5679. South Asia: 'Caucasia': map of the area of the Ottoman and Russian empires between Berdyans'k (now in Ukraine), Astrakhan (now in the Russian Federation), Rasht (now in Iran) and Aleppo (Halab, now in Syria), showing…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1906-1919
    Reference
    MFQ 1/87
  • Catalogue level
    Piece

    1 item extracted from WO 32/5688. 'Map of European Russia showing railways, waterways':...

    1 item extracted from WO 32/5688. 'Map of European Russia showing railways, waterways': covering the area between the Arctic Ocean in the north and the Caucasus mountains in the south, and between the Baltic Sea in the west and the River Ob and the C…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1891-1916
    Reference
    MFQ 1/135
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Director of Public Prosecutions: Registers of Cases

    Registers of applications for advice on action and of other communications addressed to the Director of Public Prosecutions by chief constables, town clerks and others, constituting a record of cases referred. There are also separate registers of mis…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1884-1956
    Reference
    DPP 3
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Colonial Office: Information Department: Registered Files (INF Series)

    This series contains files dealing with all aspects of the operation of the Colonial Office's Information Department, including information used to counter the threat of Communism in the colonies, film censorship, the establishment and administration…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1952-1967
    Reference
    CO 1027
  • Catalogue level
    Piece

    Robert Adams: 1949 tour to British Guiana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, lecturing...

    Robert Adams: 1949 tour to British Guiana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, lecturing on British film and theatre and giving theatrical performances and workshops; cancellation of tour to Barbados.Walter Allen: 1949 tours to Czechoslovakia and Hungar…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1948-1950
    Reference
    BW 83/8
  • Catalogue level
    Piece

    Gold Coast: register of communist literature

    Gold Coast: register of communist literature

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1956 Jan 01 - 1956 Dec 31
    Reference
    FCO 141/4954

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